Food cutting and lifting device.



No. 834.601. PATENTED O T. 30, 1906.

A. WOERNLE. FOOD CUTTING AND LIFTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.12,1906.

ADOLPH VVOERNLE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOOD CUTTING AND LIFTING DEVICE- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed October 12, 1905. Serial No. 282,392.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLP WOERNLE, of Boston, inthe county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Food Cutting and Lifting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a food liftin or manipulating device,

such as .a table-for with cutters for severing from a ortion of food a piece of suitable size for lnsertion in the mouth, the iece being left on the fork so that it may e lifted directly to the mouth after being severed.

The invention consists in the improved de vice which. I will now proceed to describe and claim.

-Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a perspectlve view of a device embodying my invention, the cutters being open. Fig. 2 represents a similar view showing the cutters closed. Fig. 3 represents a fragmentary'pers ective sectional view.

The same etters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a represents a handle which su ports a lifter, preferably composed of ork-tines b b b b. The tine b at one edge of the fork is formed as a shearblade, its upper edge being raised above the other tines and sharpened to form a shearing edge.

0 represents a handle pivoted at c to the handle a and provided with a shear-blade 0 adapted to cooperate with the blade I) in severing a piece or fragment from a portion of food. The severed piece is supported by the lifter and can be conveniently transferred thereby to the mouth.-. The shear-blades b and c are preferablymadequite slender, so

they may be inserted in the mouth as a part of the lifter without inconvenience. Y

My invention enables a cutter and lifter to be held by one hand as a single article instead of requiring the use of both hands, as is the case when the ordinary knife and fork are em loyed.

he device may be employed for cutting pies and other articles of food into pieces and lifting the pieces from the plate. When so used the lifter need not be subdivided into fork-tines.

I claim 1. An implement of the character described, com rising a lifter having at one. edge a shearblade affixed to the lifter, the said lifter having also a handle, and a complemental shear-blade having a handle and pivotedto the lifter, the said blades being adapted to cooperate in severing a fragment from a mass, and depositing said fragment on the lifter at one side of the shear-blades.

2. An implement of the character described, comprising a fork having one of its edge tines formed as a shear-blade, and a complemental handled shear-blade, pivoted to the fork-handle, and adapted to cooperate with the said edge tine in severing a fragment from a mass and depositing said fragment on the other tines, the said shearblades being attenuated so that when closed they may be inserted in the mouth of the user.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH WOERNLE.

that when closed, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, 

